NextIO Signs Up PNY as Distributor for EMEA Market

Dec 15, 2010 | NextIO announced a strategic distribution agreement with PNY to exclusively distribute NextIO's vCORE Express and vCORE Extreme products to resellers in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
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MathWorks Delivers New Parallel Computing Support for Real-Time Workshop

Dec 15, 2010 | MathWorks today announced a new capability that accelerates code generation build times for engineers working on designs that are componentized with model reference.
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LSU Center for Computation & Technology Appoints New Director

Dec 15, 2010 | The LSU Board of Supervisors has officially confirmed Joel E. Tohline as the new director of the LSU Center for Computation & Technology, effective December 13.
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PRACE Announces 'SuperMUC' System for LRZ

Dec 15, 2010 | The Partnership for Advanced Computing in Europe, PRACE, welcomed the upcoming availability of the third Tier-0 system for the PRACE Research Infrastructure.
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iRODS 2011 User Group Meeting Announced

Dec 15, 2010 | The Data Intensive Cyber Environments Center (DICE Center) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill has announced the third annual User Group Meeting for iRODS, the Integrated Rule-Oriented Data System, on "Sustainable Policy-Based Data Management, Sharing, and Preservation."
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Red Bull Racing Revs Up Formula 1 Race Car Simulations with Netlist's HyperCloud Memory

Dec 15, 2010 | Netlist, Inc. today announced that its HyperCloud memory module is revving up the performance of Red Bull Racing's Formula 1 Racing Car simulations, which includes computational fluid dynamics (CFD).
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LSU Scientist Identifies Chess Benchmark Parameters for DARPA UHPC Project

Dec 15, 2010 | Steven Brandt, a computational scientist in the LSU Center for Computation & Technology, delivered the first specifications of the "chess benchmark" to be used in the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency's (DARPA) Ubiquitous High Performance Computing (UHPC) program.
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AMD Fusion Developer Summit Issues Call for Presentation Proposals on Heterogeneous Computing

Dec 14, 2010 | Today the AMD Fusion Developer Summit conference board issued a call for presentation proposals from software development leaders in heterogeneous and GPU computing.
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Spectra Logic Tape Libraries Sweep Storage Magazine's 2010 Quality Awards

Dec 14, 2010 | Spectra Logic announced today that it has earned top honors in two categories winning the Storage magazine /SearchStorage.com Quality Awards for enterprise and midrange tape libraries.
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SQL PASS and Supercomputing Attendees Say Customer Satisfaction Suffers Most From Slow Application Performance

Dec 14, 2010 | Kaminario has posted survey results from attendees of both the Microsoft SQL PASS Summit and the SC10 (Supercomputing) conference, illustrating the impact slow application performance is having on businesses.
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AMAX Introduces Multi-Petabyte NAS Storage Solution

Dec 14, 2010 | AMAX today announced the availability of the new StorMax-X1 scalable NAS storage solution.
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IBM 'Watson' Computer to Challenge Jeopardy Champs

Dec 14, 2010 | IBM and America's Favorite Quiz show Jeopardy! today announced that an IBM computing system named "Watson" will compete on Jeopardy! against the show's two most successful and celebrated contestants -- Ken Jennings and Brad Rutter.
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Dell to Acquire Compellent

Dec 13, 2010 | Dell and Compellent Technologies, Inc. today announced they have entered into a definitive agreement for Dell to acquire Compellent, a provider of highly-virtualized storage solutions.
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Meet OSCAR: Statewide Institutions Sharing Resources for Common Good of Rhode Island

Dec 13, 2010 | Today, high-ranking government, academic, industrial and community figures are announcing an innovative new statewide public-private partnership, called OSCAR, that will use knowledge to reduce power.
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NIST Team Awarded Millions of Supercomputing Hours, Aims for 'Concrete Results'

Dec 13, 2010 | The Department of Energy (DOE) has just awarded a team of computer scientists, physicists and mathematicians at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) millions of hours of supercomputing time to analyze concrete flow, in the hope that this common material can be improved.
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Rensselaer's Francine Berman Named IEEE Fellow

Dec 13, 2010 | Cyberinfrastructure pioneer Francine Berman, the vice president for research at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, has been named a fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE).
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IBM Helps Corpus Christi Build a Smarter City

Dec 13, 2010 | IBM and the city of Corpus Christi, Texas, today announced they are working together to continuously improve efficiency and sustainability for the city's more than 275,000 residents.
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DDN Named One of Fastest Growing Companies in Los Angeles Area

Dec 13, 2010 | DataDirect Networks has been named one of the 100 fastest-growing private companies in the Los Angeles area by the Los Angeles Business Journal.
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Leibniz Supercomputing Centre to Acquire Multi-Petaflop Supercomputer from IBM

Dec 13, 2010 | The Leibniz Supercomputing Centre in Garching, Germany has signed a contract with IBM to develop and build a new general purpose supercomputer with next generation Intel Xeon processors to support advanced scientific research.
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New Book Series to Showcase Latest Scientific Breakthroughs Enabled with Parallel Computing

Dec 13, 2010 | Morgan Kaufmann has collaborated with NVIDIA Corporation to produce a new series of books that will demonstrate how GPUs and advanced parallel computing techniques can be harnessed within different domains to enable new scientific breakthroughs.
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IceWEB Integrates STEC's SSD Technology Within the IceWEB Unified Data Storage Cluster System

Dec 10, 2010 | IceWEB, Inc. today announced that it has successfully integrated STEC's MACH16 and MACH8 Solid State Drives (SSDs) into the IceWEB 3000/5000 Unified Data Storage Cluster System delivered to Honeywell Federal Manufacturing and Technologies for use by the United States Government.
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IU Open Systems Lab Researchers Receive SC10's Best Paper Award

Dec 10, 2010 | A paper co-authored by Dr. Andrew Lumsdaine, director of the Open Systems Lab (OSL) at the Indiana University Pervasive Technology Institute, and former OSL researchers Torsten Hoefler (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) and Timo Schneider (University of Technology Chemnitz) has received Supercomputing 2010's Best Paper accolade.
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Brookhaven Lab Ranked Number One for Hadron Collider Research

Dec 10, 2010 | The Brookhaven National Laboratory has been named the number one institution in the world for hadron collider research -- research that explores the very earliest moments of the universe, the most fundamental particles of matter, and the forces through which they interact by colliding particles such as protons and heavy ions at very high energies.
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EUREKA Project Develops Advanced HPC Tools

Dec 10, 2010 | The EUREKA ITEA 2 software Cluster ParMA project brought together European computer specialists to enable the development of an integrated set of programming methods required to harness the power of the latest multicore processor architectures essential for European research and industrial production.
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ACM Names IU's Bobby Schnabel as 2010 Fellow

Dec 10, 2010 | The world's leading educational and scientific computing society has recognized Indiana University School of Informatics Dean Bobby Schnabel for his achievements in advancing fundamental knowledge of computing.
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